Last Thoughts

It appears we are going to face up a echo with the new Radeon Hard disk 6900 and GeForce GTX 500 GPU serial. With a few central differences, of grade. This fourth dimension Nvidia arrived to marketplace well on time and they are also very efficient confronting competing Radeons.

Whereas the GeForce GTX 480 was the fastest unmarried-GPU graphics cards during its era, the GTX 580 retains the crown every bit it is merely too much for the Radeon HD 6970 to handle. The HD 6970 will be priced to tackle Nvidia's second in control, the GeForce GTX 570, while the Hard disk drive 6950 fills a cost bracket of its own.

It won't be until early side by side yr when AMD gets the adventure to reclaim the operation crown, with the dual-GPU Radeon Hard disk 6990, lawmaking-named Antilles. If the performance of the Radeon HD 6970 is anything to go past, we see no reason why they won't be able to flatten the GeForce GTX 580. Unless Nvidia launches a surprise attack with a dual-GPU GTX 500 series graphics card of their own, and so AMD is on track to win back the championship.

Even so getting dorsum to the here and now, the Radeon Hard disk 6970 is going caput to caput with the GeForce GTX 570, as the suggested retail toll for this card has been set at $369, while the GTX 570 debuted concluding week for slightly less at $349. Despite being two very dissimilar animals, the Radeon Hd 6970 and GeForce GTX 570 ended upwardly delivering the same average operation beyond the 14 games that we tested at 1920x1200.

For the most part the gap was very narrow to telephone call as we saw a percentage or less difference in games such equally Telephone call of Duty: Modern Warfare two, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Splinter Cell: Conviction and Earth in Conflict. The Radeon HD 6970 was at best institute to be twenty% faster than the GeForce GTX 570, while at that place were instances where it was also roughly 20% slower.

On the power consumption forepart, the Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GTX 570 were very close once again, demonstrating a similar level of operating efficiency.

Therefore should the Radeon HD 6970 immediately get bachelor at ~$369, which we are expecting information technology to, then it will exist a good alternative to the GeForce GTX 570. Picking between the two won't exist piece of cake, though we feel consumers cannot go wrong with either choice given the price and performance on offer.

When compared to other graphics cards such as the GeForce GTX 580, the Radeon HD 6970 was on average 15% slower, while it is expected to be around xxx% cheaper, same equally Nvidia'due south own GTX 570 which presents a improve value proffer.

And so there's the card that the Radeon HD 6970 is effectively replacing, the Hard disk drive 5870. Based on our 1920x1200 benchmark information across 14 games the Radeon Hard disk drive 6970 was on average 24% faster and nosotros are expecting information technology to cost ~10% more than. Furthermore, efficiency has too been improved. The Radeon Hard disk 6970 consumed xvi% more than power than the Hard disk drive 5870 to deliver that extra 24% performance.

Something that should be pointed out is that the Radeon Hard disk drive 6970 performed slightly better than the GeForce GTX 570 in S.T.A.Fifty.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat and Aliens vs. Predator, two titles that make apply of Tessellation. In the past Nvidia had provided a clear cutting advantage in these games.

When we tested the GeForce GTX 570 last week we suggested that any potential buyers were ameliorate off holding dorsum for a calendar week until they could see what AMD had in store with the Radeon HD 6970. Every bit information technology turns out, they have adult a remarkably similar product in terms of performance and efficiency. Considering that we really liked the GeForce GTX 570, it goes without saying that we are also fond of the Radeon Hard disk 6970. Both provide an exceptional level of operation and value, making the selection betwixt those two both easy and difficult at the same time. You can't go wrong either way though.